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Julie Davis has a teaching Diploma, B. Environmental Studies, M. Environmental Education, and a Ph.D. in curriculum change. As an early childhood teacher educator, she taught and researched at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia for over thirty years focusing on embedding environmental and sustainability education into science, social studies and health education subjects. She co-founded the now-Queensland Early Childhood Sustainability Network in 1996. She has edited international textbooks for early childhood preservice teachers in ECEfS, and published multiple research and professional publications and reports. She initiated the international Transnational Dialogues on Research in ECEfS, and continues to write and research in ECEfS in retirement. Sue Elliott is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England, New South Wales. Sue co-authored the first Australian text on early childhood environmental education in 1991 and her commitment to global sustainability and early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) continues today. Sue is a co-convenor for the Transnational Dialogues in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability research network and also the European Early Childhood Education Research Association, Sustainability SIG. She is a consulting editor for the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education and most recently co-authored Early years learning in Australian natural environments. |
